Hi my name is Maryann with clever yoga and I'm here to show you how you can use the clever yoga yoga blocks to help increase your flexibility so I love using yoga blocks in my yoga practice this probably my favorite yoga prop to use and maybe it's just because of what I use them for but when it comes to doing anything with flexibility that you feel like you have a hard time holding on possing are you just need a little extra support yoga blocks are one of the best thing that you can use to help deep in that post and help you stay in that post for just a little bit longer so using this for the splits you can either place to props to the side of you up high like this so if you need a little more help and you want to go higher you can use them on both sides as post to hold on and you can stay upright so you can see how this is extremely helpful in this manner and as you move forward in advance into the pose you can turn them to the side and get even lower into the split position now you can also use them to prop up your legs or just right under your glute so if I place that on my glute and sit into it a little bit and then maybe just see where my legs sticks out here you always want to make sure you do this very gently and you're doing it with good form and posturing might put this one right here so I can sit into this a little bit more and it takes a little bit of easing into it but as you can see I can focus here now and I can even hold on here I can focus on my breathing I can focus on my spinal alignment and engaging that core while I rotate my hips forward and the blocks help support me right here in the split position so you can use this for both sides left and right splits as I'm doing now and you can also use it for center splits so center splits again using my post if you like to hold onto as you move down into the center splits but if you want you can also prop this up right underneath your legs so I don't know if i go down that far but you can also sit into the blocks so if you're like me and you can't go down that far because you're not warmed up right now you can just go down as far as you can and then sit your hips back into the blocks to this is a little bit more of a balanced position you gotta keep that core really tight and nice and upright but I'm feeling that there and this is really supporting me at the depth of the stretch and I can focus on just breathing deep into it and just relaxing in to this pose 'cause that's the most important thing with yoga poses is if you can relax and breathe deep into each pose those muscles that tension it'll start to release a lot sooner and so if you can do this on a consistent level you're gonna start noticing you're practicing your poses go deeper a lot more effectively than if you're just pushing yourself into a kind of fighting that resistance so here's a couple ways that you can use the clever yoga blokcs with your splits and increasing that flexibility I really love these blocks if you haven't heard of them you can check them out by clicking the link below or visiting cleveryoga.
